Re: Autobeaming with subdivision in 4/4

[Hans Aberg]

On 3 Mar 2008, at 22:32, Hugo Flordal wrote:

> OK, thanks, that's one solution... but I guess that is not
> the "right" way of doing it?

The problem is that you want to beam differently than implied by the  
time signature you want to write. So you want to beam in what might  
be described as 8 = (1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1)+(1+1), whereas the common  
interpretation of 4 is (1+1)+(1+1) or perhaps 1+1+1+1. If taken  
literally, your beaming implies that the 4/4 has one primary accent,  
and on the 1/4s have secondary accents. Then each 1/4 has a yet  
subordinate accent on the second 1/8 of it. And LilyPond does not a  
dedicated function doing just that, though it might be possible to do  
write one.

  Hans Åberg